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Saidu Tejan-Thomas is a young poet. For a long time, he had a story he needed to tell: an homage and apology to his mother. It's a tragic love story driven by the tangled search for a better life. It's personal for sure, but set against the uni
This is a story of art & love, of madness & beauty, of youth & age & death. It took Bianca Giaever 2 years of listening to 546 tapes of Pulitzer-winning Franz Wright to make. Jay Allison guided her. Listen.
The story of Kempis Songster, who was given a mandatory life sentence without parole for a crime he committed at 15 years old. He is forty-five now, still incarcerated, but recent Supreme Court rulings are giving him a chance at parole. Produce
Editor’s Note: This speech was delivered as a “provocation” on the opening night of the Third Coast International Audio Festival in Chicago, November, 2016. (photo by Jay Allison)I confess I like preaching, but don’t want you to feel preache
*Editor’s Note: This conversation was recorded on October 25, 2016.Jenna: So let’s start with who are you and what do you do?Laura: I’m Laura Walker, I’m the President and CEO of New York Public Radio.Jenna: And how long have you been here?
The moment I heard about Jim Salestrom, I knew. Not only was this the story I wanted to do for the Transom Traveling Workshop, but I knew in my gut the story was also about me.I came to the Transom Traveling Workshop with all sorts of notions
Last fall at the very end of the semester I saw a poster in the hallway of the art school at Virginia Commonwealth University for one of my favorite podcasts, Love and Radio by Nick van der Kolk. It turns out that it wasn’t a poster for the pod
Revisiting Difficult ThingsThe story of the violent crime my mother survived in the fall of 1994 has never been something I share easily. It’s more something I offer after I’ve really gotten to know someone and feel that there’s something impo
What Miranda July Can Teach (& Remind) Us About Making Media for the PublicAdmittedly, I over prepared for this interview. Beyond spending many evenings researching and thinking, I also hijacked every one of my hangouts with friends for months
Rob Rosenthal, Lead InstructorRob Rosenthal…one of the things I love most about my job as lead instructor [is] I have no idea what’s going to happen. From day-to-day, from workshop to workshop… every class is different. The stories are differ
A “Code Blue”You’ve seen it on TV. The line on the heart monitor goes flat. Reassuring beeps are overtaken by the ominous, solid tone of death. Doctors come running, throw electric paddles on the chest and yell, “Clear!” The patient springs ba
LyricsBlack Bach – Lyrics by Billy DeanStart Now – Lyrics by Billy DeanPurchaseClick here to purchase songsArtists’ NotesBen Verdery: My daughter Mitsuko asked me during the holidays if I’d heard her friend Billy Dean’s new music. I hadn’
“Maria, Lena and Me” on PRXAbout “Maria, Lena and Me”Lena in RussiaSo here’s the very roundabout way I ended up making my first radio documentary. I’ve worked in television for the last 15 years producing news documentaries mostly for PBS. B
About Southern Flight 242When I was seven years old, my father died in a commercial plane crash. It’s a fact I grew up knowing and something I never wanted to look into, until now.After I decided to make a radio story about the crash, I often
“Of Kith and Kids” on PRXAbout “Of Kith and Kids”It started with a pledge to my local public radio station… yes!As a sustaining member of WNYC I receive a New Yorker subscription and read the piece: State Of Play: How Tot Lots Became Places
“Diary of a Bad Year: A War Correspondent’s Dilemma” on PRXAbout Diary of a Bad Year: A War Correspondent’s DilemmaThis project was born in the place where so many good ideas come to life — Woods Hole. I was visiting Jay and the Transom Story
“Walking Across America: Advice for a Young Man” on PRXPeople in the Piece (in order of appearance)“I don’t know why he’s doing it. He’s just crazy, I think.”Bill Guy, Shady Grove, Alabama.“Like it or not, it is about breaking this hold tha
About A Code To Live By In Appalachia“Mysterious” is probably the first word most people associate with the Melungeons. They were a mixed race group that settled in southern Appalachia in the late 1700s. They lived in their own communities, se
“Forgiveness” on PRXAbout ForgivenessI stumbled upon this story on a long distance bike trip, while I was doing a radio project on veterans’ experiences at war. As you can see, this story has nothing to do with veterans or war. It just goes t
About An Open Letter to a Fussy Woman at a Toll BoothToll collection is the second oldest profession.In Greek mythology, Charon the ferryman (one of the oldest service workers) required that a toll be paid to carry souls across the rivers bet
“Blind Parenting” on PRXAbout Blind ParentingIn my previous, and now current podcast, I spend a lot of time satirizing this and that aspect of other people’s lives. So I found the task of doing an actual story about my own life daunting. But
[“Portrait of the Bully as a Young Man” on PRX](%20http://www.prx.org/pieces/75197-being-a-bully "PRX Piece")About Portrait of the Bully as a Young ManSometime in the fall of 2010, after I had seen or heard or read another bullying story abou
“Bucky’s Dome” on PRXAbout “Bucky’s Dome”One of the biggest challenges I faced was condensing all of the information I had into a manageable story that makes sense. Buckminster Fuller was a philosopher, architect, inventor, author, dreamer –
“The D-Word” on PRXAbout The D-WordWhat is the D-Word? – It’s a 30-minute documentary that attempts to explore our rather neurotic relationship with that five-letter word: death.It was produced as part of my thesis project for an MSc in Scie
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